News Recap - August 27-28, 2024

Highlighted news events from August 27-28, 2024

Each day is packed with events happening all over the world. Cut through the noise so you can stay on top of what matters most.

Top Highlights

• Trump Indicted Again: Remember the Supreme Court ruling in July that said former President Donald Trump has some presidential immunity from criminal prosecution in his federal election case in Washington? Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a superseding indictment that now seeks to focus the case on Trump’s actions where he does not have immunity. [More]

• Telegram CEO dealt preliminary charges: Pavel Durov was released from police custody, and ordered to pay €5 million bail and report to a police station twice a week. He’s not allowed to leave France. He faces multiple charges, including complicity in running an online platform that enables illegal transactions; complicity in enabling the distribution of child sexual abuse material, drug trafficking, and fraud; and not cooperating with authorities. Durov’s lawyer has dismissed the charges as absurd. [More]

Domestic

• The FBI has shared four new photos and new information on the shooter in its probe into the attempted assassination of Trump. [More]

• A Chinese hacking group, Volt Typhoon, has been attacking U.S. internet service providers recently by exploiting a software bug, according to a report from a cybersecurity firm. The report said four U.S. victims and one Indian victim have been identified, although it declined to name them. [More]

• The Supreme Court has blocked the Biden administration’s latest attempt to revive its student debt cancellation plan. [More]

• The Biden administration is banning drilling and mining on 28 million acres in Alaska, reversing a Trump-era decision that would have permitted resource development there. [More]

• The Massachusetts Supreme Court struck down the state’s 67-year-old ban on carrying switchblades. [More]

US Health

• The United States has recorded this year’s first death of eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus, a mosquito-borne infection, in a healthy 41-year-old man. [More]

• Another virus that mosquitoes (and midges) carry—Oropouche virus disease, also known as Sloth fever—has now entered the United States, from travelers who had been to Cuba. [More]

• The U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory on parental health and wellbeing. The report talks about the pressures parents face and how to ease the burden. [More]

International

• Russia is permanently banning 92 Americans from entering the country. This includes over a dozen journalists. [More]

• Israel is conducting a major anti-terror operation in the West Bank and said on the second day of its operation that it has killed five terrorists inside a mosque. [More]

• Typhoon Shanshan made landfall in Japan and authorities are telling 4 million people in southern Japan to evacuate. [More]

Daily Inspiration

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

— Pythagoras

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